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Violet Steel - Physical Education -

Sepia insisted she was fine and that was good enough for Violet, at least until proven otherwise. The archer decided that she would stay by Sepia's side and keep an eye on her, just in case. It wasn't like Violet was doing it because she didn't know anyone else or anything...

”ITS FOOTBALL TIME!”

...right, this shirtless man was here. Violet assumed this hunk of a man was their PE teacher. So they were going to be playing football, fascinating.

"Violet, you wouldn't have to know what 'football' is, would you?"

Now, Violet wasn't sure what kind of football their shirtless teacher had in mind. When she thought of football, she only remembered blood, sweat, and tears. Oh, and screaming, lots of screaming.

...

"It can be a bit...intense, from my experience..."

Well, that wasn't exactly the most encouraging thing to say...

...

"Though...the version I played was a bit...unorthodox...I'm sure it will be fine...and free from broken bones."

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FEEL THE HATRED OF TEN THOUSAND YEARS...or you know...just six.

Name: Emerald Felicia

Age: 16

Gender: Female

Race: Cat Faunus

Weapons: Pump action shotgun, can be loaded with different kinds of dust for different effects. Solid black katana, it cuts things.

Semblance: Emerald has pushed her abilities to the limit, over and over till she breaks them. Her thirst for more power as caused her semblance to slowly evolve into a devastating offensive tool. Her control over the air has been refined to the point where she can fire concentrated bursts of air that are strong enough to punch through flesh and bone as if they're paper. She can create devastating cyclones capable of destroying entire towns or create large vacuums that remove all the breathable air around her opponents. Those are just a few examples of what she's capable of.

Oddly enough, she has not mastered the ability to fly in the air, she seems to have an issue with heights.

Personality: Aggressive, crude, fierce...these have all been used to describe the short cat faunus. She isn't cruel, and she can be friendly enough if you're on her good side, but she's a girl that's incredibly focused and driven. She has a goal that she must fulfill or die trying to reach it.

Appearance: Her appearance is much like her main universe counterpart, only her hair is short, and right eye is always shut, with a nasty scar across it. She has various scars across her body, some particularly nasty ones are hidden by her clothing.

History: When Emerald was ten, her village was overrun by Grimm. They came in the middle of the night, catching the village off guard. What happened was a massacre, most of the village was wiped out. Her own father died defending Emerald and her mother from an assailant who had been responsible for leading the Grimm to the village, apparently out for blood. The assailant lost his right hand but managed to escape after dealing the fatal blow to her father. Emerald tried to stop the assailant but ended up seriously wounded herself.

Her mother and the few surviving villagers managed to escape with Emerald and their lives, but Emerald never forgot that day or the face of her father's killer. The six years since then she's been honing her skills and becoming as powerful as she can, driven by the sole desire to find the assassin and gut him with her father's katana.

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Violet Steel - Physical Education -

"No homework...we fought a giant plant monster." Violet was caught slightly off guard by the girl's sudden burst of enthusiasm and pain. Violet had dealt with all sorts of people in her short life, but this was something new for the ex-mercenary.

She looks like she's in pain and laughing at the same time...what does it mean?

Was this contagious? Violet took a half a step back...

"Ah-sorry. Nice to meet you, Violet. My name's Si-Sepia Russet."

Sepia Russet. Violet repeated the name in her head a few times, she was fairly good at remembering names. The wolf faunus eyed the girl over once again, looking concerned.

"Are you okay? You seem to be in...agony."

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Violet Steel - Physical Education -

Violet looked at the other faunus, her mind spinning for a moment. She quickly collected herself and steeled her mind, she didn't want to appear nervous in front of this girl...even if she was.

"...yes, I was in Grimm Studies."

I should probably introduce myself...

"I'm Violet Steel." It was then she noticed that other girl seemed to bit a bit under the weather. Perhaps she was mistaken, would it be too presumptuous of her to ask about it?

Violet wasn't sure, so she said nothing about it.

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Violet Steel - Physical Education -

Grimm studies had come and gone in a blur, even faster than Violet's other classes so far. Her next class was PE, which the wolf faunus assumed would be fairly standard. She was one of the last of the students to arrive in the gym, and as she did she glanced at the others present, assessing who they were and if she recognized anyone. She thought she remembered a few of their faces, but in all honesty, she'd never spoken to any of them. This was her first day after all.

This made Violet wonder if she should attempt to strike up a conversation with someone before class started, in an attempt to get to know someone. She was...not very good at socializing, growing up she'd always preferred to let others do the talking for the most part while she listened. The idea of being the one to start a conversation was...terrifying.

In the end, she just couldn't do it. Violet just stood where she was a bit awkwardly. She didn't know what to do before the class started. She didn't mind being around small groups of people but right now she felt rather self-conscious, especially in her PE uniform...

Ugh, why does this scare me more than fighting Grimm? Something's wrong with me...

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Survival

Armory class had come and gone in a flash, after having her little talk with Amy, Emerald was feeling a lot better. Sure, Amy wasn't ready to talk just yet, but at least she hadn't outright rejected her, right?

But never mind that now, she'd see Amy after classes. Right now, she needed to focus on all these cupcakes that were apparently on everyone's seats in Survival! As Oswald spoke blasphemy and Anna punished him for it, Emerald had already stuffed an entire cupcake into her mouth.

After a minute or two Emerald had scarfed the whole thing down, after a swallow Emerald pointed a finger at Oswald. “Sweets make the world go around Oswald. Don’t anger the gods of sugar with your blasphemous heresy!”

Emerald stood up on top of her desk. "Listen! These cupcakes will give us the energy we need to survive! That's what our good teacher is trying to tell us!" She exclaimed this rather loudly.

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Appearance of Weapon: In its default state, the weapon appears to be a massive, double-edged blade that is metallic pink in color. The edges of the blade are adorned with what appears to be 'thorns' while the hilt is decorated with engravings of roses. Very over-the-top.

When in gun-mode, the blade seemingly splits open in the middle, revealing that it is more than just a blade as it surges with electricity.

Name of Weapon: Rosethorn, slayer of gods

Type of Weapon: Claymore/Railgun

Description: Being the massive blade that Rosethorn is, with all its intricate parts and mechanisms hidden within, this is an extremely heavy weapon. You must have considerable strength to pick it up, much less swing it around in battle. Its sheer weight makes the weapon ideal against slower opponents with heavy armor and/or shielding, though you'll have a harder time against nimble opponents.

Against distant targets, the weapon can be converted into a railgun that launches high-velocity projectiles that will pierce through even the toughest Grimm armor. There are very living things that can survive a direct hit by one if it's slugs, at least without an aura. Due to the tremendous amount of power required to fire said weapon, it can only be fired once every thirty seconds. Rosethorn must cooldown or the weapon could become damaged. In this form, the weapon is also very effective against slower targets, while opponents with speed may be able to dodge and put the user at a disadvantage.

Firing the railgun has the side effect of making the blade very hot. In addition, the weapon has a tremendous amount of recoil, this weapon should not be used by anyone without an aura, you are likely to break a bone.

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Armory

Emerald almost didn't hear Amy's words, much less Anna's. Her heart was beating so fast she felt the force would knock her over. Thankfully Amy didn't snap at her like she'd feared, but it was obvious this had been the wrong time to approach Amy. She could see it in her eyes...

...and it probably didn't help that they were in the middle of class.

Emerald just nodded meekly in response to Amy, and Anna's suggestion as well. She'd agree to anything to get out of her current predicament. All she had to do now was run away and hide under a bed somewhere for a few hours...

"O-Ok..." Emerald suddenly had great empathy for people who were shy.

Violet Steel - Grimm Studies -

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This wasn't going the way she wanted.

This creature is proving to be far more troublesome than I thought...

Not that she expected it to be easy, but perhaps she had underestimated the overgrown plant.

There's too many, I'm doing all I can keep them off me...

She needed to change tactics, as she dodged and struck at the roots she came up with a plan. It was a crude one, but it was all she had. She reattached her two blades into one once more, holding her weapon in one hand as she leaped away from the roots, she quickly drew an arrow from her quiver, the arrowhead looked rather odd though, it wasn't pointy or sharp like normal. She quickly threw it towards the roots, it went past them and struck the ground. Immediately there was a hissing sound as smoke poured out of the arrow and began to fill that part of the room. Violet was unsure how the roots could 'see' her, but she was betting on the fact that the smoke would mask her location from the monster.

Thanks to her semblance, Violet could sense the exact location of any of her 'marked' targets, it didn't matter if she could physically see them or not. She quickly reattached the bowstring to her weapon and drew another special arrow. It looked a lot like one of her fire arrows, except the arrowhead looked a lot bulkier. She fired it without hesitation towards the biggest 'head' of the monster, hoping that this time it wouldn't see it coming. The moment that arrow struck something, there would be a fairly decent explosion.

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Armory

Emerald let out a small gasp of surprise as Anna put a hand on her shoulder. She was so nervous it was making her jumpy. She glanced back towards Amy and then back to Anna. She bit her lip for a few minutes, debating whether she wanted to go through with it or not. After what seemed like an eternity she finally spoke up.

“Alright…if you come with me I think I can do it. Just…back me up with I start becoming incoherent or do something stupid…”

It really wasn’t like Emerald to act all shy and nervous, but this was different. She wanted to get to know her sister more than anything, but at the same time, she was terrified at the thought of being rejected.

Still, if she didn’t confront this now it would be eating at her all day. So, she gathered her courage and walked up to Amy’s desk.

“H-Hi.”

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Violet narrowed her eyes as she watched the Dionaea protect its head from her arrows. It was obviously a weak point, otherwise it wouldn’t have bothered to protect itself.

She didn’t have time to think up a new strategy as five roots came flying towards the archer. Violet quickly drew another fire arrow and launched it at one of the roots, but that still left four. Violet leaped away as the first root nearly collided into her, snapping her bow in two as she did, her bow becoming two scimitars. The bow string rolled up into one of the newly formed blades.

The roots didn’t relent however, and so Violet was forced to dodge and strike them with her blades whenever they got too close. She needed to get away from these roots somehow, she couldn’t use her bow with them around.

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For a moment, all was calm, even as the Dionaea assaulted her fellow students. Violet simply observed, the mark she'd placed on the creature let her sense every movement it made, though it difficult to keep track of so many limbs. This did mean however that she could not be taken by surprise, she'd sense the moment one of it's many tendrils came close to her. Dodging them was simple, she easily evaded any vines that tried to snag her, almost as if she was a step ahead of them.

Despite looking frail, the Dionaea was anything from it. It's roots were tough, it would take serious firepower to pierce through them. Violet looked at the primary head of the monster. Was that it's weak point?

There was only one way to find out, while dodging a vine that tried to sweep her legs out from under her, she aimed her bow and pulled back the string before letting go. The arrow head glowed a bright orange as it traveled to it's target, the large head of the beast. It was time to see how the Dionaea liked fire.

When the arrow collided with the beast, the fire dust infused in the arrowhead exploded in a small inferno. If that didn't get the plant's attention, nothing would.

Violet didn't wait for the beast to retaliate, she had already drawn another fire arrow from her quiver and fired it at it's primary head again.

Burn.